This year's breeding success and Sole Survivor

[SnakeDancer]

Had some newt breeding success for the first time this year ... my female Italian Alpine newt, Rana, was intensively courted by her two handsome males (Mosaic and Goldeneye), and laid lots and lots of eggs for me starting in late December. Now after many months of hatching brine shrimp and frequent water changes and chopping up blackworms and netting mosquito larvae, the oldest juvies have metamorphosed, with more still working on losing their feathery gills.

My Danube cresteds laid some eggs too, but only a few - and then I had to be out of town on an emergency puppy rescue right at the time when they hatched and started needing food. So I lost all but one. That one is doing extremely well, though. I've named her(?) Solo, and will be keeping her if she makes it to adulthood.

The baby alpines are starting to look for new homes.

I've found that aside from dogs, amphibians are far more labor-intensive to raise than any other species in my household!

 

[Jennewt]

Good work! Yes, they are labor-intensive!

 

[SnakeDancer]

Thanks, Jen ... btw, the 3 Japanese firebellies I got from you last year are doing fantastically well.

 

[caudatadude28]

Newts and sals are quite labor intensive to raise but very rewarding in my opinion. I love watching them grow. Right now Im raising dobro and maculatum larvae. I wish I was raising tigrinum or mavortium larvae though.

 

[uwe]

The baby alpines are starting to look for new homes.

I've found that aside from dogs, amphibians are far more labor-intensive to raise than any other species in my household!

Newts are labor intensive, no discussion about that. But sell juvies of T.alp.apuanus for $35/animal is quite a demanding price.


Uwe